Prosaic desires modernist knowledge boredom laughter and anticipation crangle sara isbn 9780748640850 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand . Laughter begins with a recognition or anticipation of something humorous and this moment of perception is highly unpredictable as martin armstrong observes in laughing 1928 thinking and to some extent even dreaming can be performed when desired we can say let us eat let us drink let us smoke let us idle and so saying we can proceed . In an extension of levinasian theory it claims that desire driven shifts from self to other can be located in modernist literature the banal longings examined here lie within the poles of sexuality and power and include desires to know and escape boredom as well as risibility and anticipation authors studied include joyce woolf stein and beckett all of whom evince a discernible . Download citation prosaic desires modernist knowledge boredom laughter and anticipation exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction this book poses a . Prosaic desires modernist knowledge boredom laughter and anticipation crangle sara studying the work of joyce woolf stein and beckett sara crangle explores the everyday human longings found in modernist writing